Here's a detailed list of rules for constructing a double dactyl: (1) The entire poem is a single sentence. (2) There are two stanzas of four lines each. (3) All lines except lines four and eight are two dactylic metrical feet in length. (4) The first line is usually a rhyming nonsense phrase. For example, "Higgledy piggledy." (5) The second line often, but not always, introduces the topic of the poem. If you are writing about a person, it helps if the name of the person you are writing about is naturally in the form of a double dactyl. For example, "Hans Christian Andersen." (6) One line within the second stanza (often the sixth line) is a six-syllable, double-dactylic word, usually an adverb or adjective. For example, "Parthenogenesis." (7) The fourth and eighth lines are not double dactyls. Instead, these lines consist of one dactyl plus a stressed syllable. (8) The fourth and eighth lines rhyme with one another. Given the special form of the fourth and eight lines as mentioned in the preceding rule, it follows that the final, rhyming syllable of these lines must be a stressed syllable.

-------------------------Here's my first-ever attempt (now edited upon further [and by further I mean initial] reading of the rules myself):

Antique RoadshowCheerio dearie-oLeslie and Leigh KenoPraising the furnitureSaid as they grinned:

A dactyl, as you may know, is a poetic foot of the form >-- (ON-off-off). For example, interstate, realize, microphone, cereal, limerick, etc. etc. A double dactyl, naturally enough, is two dactyls in a row.

A double dactyl is also a poem, a form invented by Anthony Hecht and Paul Pascal. Quite like a limerick, it has a rigid (if peculiar) structure. Two stanzas, each comprising three lines of dactylic dimeter followed by a line with a dactyl and a single accent. The two stanzas have to rhyme on their last line. The first line of the first stanza is repetitive nonsense. The second line of the first stanza is somebody's name -- strictly speaking, a proper noun. Note that this name must itself be double-dactylic. E.g. Gloria Vanderbilt, Jesus of Nazareth, Gilbert and Sullivan, Archangel Gabriel. In the second stanza, one entire line must be a double-dactylic word. E.g. biopsychology

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Albatross BalbatrossBaron von RichthofenChased a CanadianDown to the deck

There at such altitudesAcrodendrophilousDouble-A gunners soonBlew him to heck

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